What number is the greatest?

Correct answer to this question is impossible, since the number series has no upper limit, and hence theoretically account number on paper or computer screen may consist of an infinitely long series of digits. However, the numbers with your own name, as such, oddly enough, not much is your record.

 This Buddhist

number asankheyya who calculated the number of cosmic cycles required for attaining nirvana. Literally it translates as incalculable, but has a definite value, equal to 10 140 (ie one with 140 zeros). True, in recent years, the role rekorsdmena claims and the number staspleks (details here), but so far (2008), it is not officially registered.

 

In second place is the number googol (10 100 - unit and a hundred zeros), which in 1938 decided to enter into the everyday life of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and the author of the untranslatable name became a 9-year-old nephew of the scientist. (More on this and other great numbers - in the article "The large numbers of big names")

 

Interestingly, if all other numbers with "names" you can pick the appropriate number of objects (eg, the number of stars in the visible universe is estimated at 70 sekstilonov - 7 10 22 , and the number of atoms that comprise the earth is of the order dodekalonov), the googol, and the more asankheyya completely "virtual". The fact that the number of electrons in the universe (a larger number of real objects do not exist), according to some theories, does not exceed 10 87 , which is 10 trillion times less than the googol.

 

10 1 ten 10 
 10 2 STR 100 
 10 3 THOUSAND 1000 
 10 6 MILLION 1,000,000 
 10 9 BN 1000000000 
 10 12 1 TRILLION 000 000 000 000 
 10 15 quadrillion 1 000 000 000 000 000 
 10 18 quintillion 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 
 10 21 SEKSTILON 1000000000 000000000000 
 10 24 SEPTILON 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 
 10 27 OKTALON 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 
 10 30 NONALON 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 
 10 33 DEKALON 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 
 10 36 ENDEKALON 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 
 10 39 DODEKALON 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 
 ... ... ... 
 10 100 googol 10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 
 10 140 ASANKHEYYA 100 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000

22.04.2007



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